California idling limit begins Jan. 1 misdemeanors possible

Truckers who cross the California state line after Jan. 1, 2008, have a new reason to dread doing so: On New Year’s Day the state begins enforcing a new anti-idling measure that doesn’t exempt sleeper time.

For the past two years, California has enforced a five-minute limit on truck idling, but allowed drivers to idle during sleeper-berth time.